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Excuse the jingoism, but this week’s Times Online top 50 list will look solely at British team achievements. Does Jonny beat Bobby? Is Freddie ahead of Beefy? Did Britain really win the Davis Cup? Here are four to tempt you before we publish the full list online on Wednesday. Beware, one may be as much of a red herring as Terry Venables’s Christmas tree formation.

England’s World Cup winners, 1966 The most fun ever had with an orange ball. Twenty-one years after the fall of Berlin, Moore, Hurst and Peters give Germany another pasting with a 4-2 win at Wembley.